Means foe caeeting velocipedes in eailwat caes



Patented May 10,1898.

(No Model.) v

P. H'. SKRINE. MEANS FUR CARRYING VELOCIPEDES IN RAILWAY CARS. No608,777.

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Milaan/uw UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS II. SKRINE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR CARRYING VELOCIPEDES IN RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Patent No. 603,777, dated May 10,1898.

Application iiled November 19, 1897. Serial 659,155. (No model.) v

T0 LZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANCIS HENRY SKRTNE, of Queen AnnesMansions,Westrninster, London, England, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Means for Carrying Velocipedes in Railway-Cars,of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide for the safe carriage ofbicycles in railway baggage and other cars.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows in longitudinal sectionalelevation so much of a railway baggage-car as is necessary to illustratemy invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section, and Fig. 3 a partial planview.

A is the iioor of the car, and A the walls thereof.

In carrying out my invention I adapt to the iioor of the car a series ofbars, rods, or fillets a a, placed from two to three inches apartandabout two inches in height.- Between these bars, rods, or iillets a athe wheels of the bicycle will be placed, and thus slipping awaysidewise on the iioor of the car Will be prevented. The bicycles can beplaced at any convenient inclination, as shown at Fig. 2.

To the Wall A' of the car I affix in convenient positions rings or otherappliances b b, to which the bicycles may be secured, as hereinafterdescribed.

For each bicycle I provide a cover C, of canvas or other suitablematerial, in which I make one or more apertures or eyelet-holes c or towhich I attach rings, lengths of cord, or their equivalents, as chainsor straps, with spring or other clips, or it may be straps and bucklesor other suitable devices, by which the covers may be secured to thebicycles and to the rings or other devices attached to the Walls of thecar, or Vit may be the covers of other bicycles. Such covers may belined with wash-leather and may be padded, if necessary, in parts whichcome in contact with 4to each cover, as described above.

the bright or varnished parts of the bicycle. In this way scratching-andother damage to the parts ofthe bicycles is prevented. The machinescannot yfall over as a result of oscillation or shocks, being preventedfrom doing so by a cord d, passed through the apertures or eyelet-holesin each cover and between the topmost spokes or other part of eachmachine and attached to one or more of the rings in the wall of the car,or by the mutual interlacing of the cords, clips, or buckles attachedThese covers may be stamped with distinctive numbers, enablingpassengers to identify their vmachines, and the private labels attachedby -passengers may also be exhibited through the aperturesoreyelet-holes. They may likewise be stamped with the initials ormonogram of the railway company.

No structural alteration of any importance in the cars is called for bythis invention.

:Baggage can be placedfupon the bars, rods,

or iillets, and the car can be used for its or .dinary purposes whetherbicycles are being carried therein or not.

The means for carrying and protecting velocipedes in railway-cars,consisting in the combination of bars, rods or fillets placed on thelicor of the car to receive the wheels, attaching devices on the wallsof the car, covers for the velocipedes provided with openings, and cordspassing through the velocipedes and through the openings in their coversand attached to said devices for at the same time securing thevelocipedes in. place and securing the covers thereon, all substantiallyas herein described.

FRANCIS I-I. SKRINE.

Witnesses:

G. F. WARREN, WALTER J. SYKERTEN.

